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From YouTube: Inside Boulder - An Inside Look at Boulder's New Municipal Law Related to Bias Motivated Crimes
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A
As
part
of
the
city's
efforts
to
ensure
that
Boulder
is
a
welcoming
and
inclusive
community
border
has
updated
its
Municipal
Code
to
enhance
sentencing
for
bias-motivated
crimes.
Some
of
those
updates
include
mixed-mode
of
hate
crimes,
religious
expression
and
increasing
potential
sentencing
from
90
days
to
364
days
in
jail
joining
us
to
explain
what
the
bias
motivated
crime
ordinance
means
are:
human
relations,
chair,
Nikhil,
Mecca,
car
and
border
district
attorney,
Michael
Dougherty.
Thank
you
both
for
joining
us
today
and
Nikhil
talked
to
us
about
the
human
relations
commission.
A
B
Flashed
it
to
2016.
After
the
2016
election,
the
Commission
began
having
packed
houses
at
meetings
and
people
appointed
to
us
at
public
comment,
incidences
of
bias
and
hate
in
the
community,
from
Muslim
students
having
head
coverings,
twined
off
and
being
called
names
to
many
others.
At
that
point,
I
thought
this
would
be
a
good
opportunity
to
be
responsive
to
the
community
and
maybe
channels
some
innovative
ideas.
I
had
been
thinking
of
over
those
through
the
commission
into
the
law,
so.
B
So
two
major
changes
to
the
bias-motivated
hate
crimes
law
in
the
city,
Oh
coverage,
we
mixed-motive
hate
crimes
and
coverage
for
religious
expression,
so
one
on
mixed
motive,
hate
crimes,
an
example
of
that
would
be
say
to
people
out
drinking
in
a
ball
but
bump
into
each
other.
Someone
spills
a
drink
on
someone
they
get
into
a
dispute,
it
escalates
and
someone,
you
know,
calls
the
other
one
racial
epithets
and
they
get
into
a
fight
with
the
mixed
motive
protections.
B
We
now
address
the
the
ability
of
what
used
to
be
the
ease
with
which
defense
attorneys
could
cause
confusion
in
those
cases
and
say:
well,
they
didn't
mean
it
that
way.
It
was
about
the
spilled
link
and
it
wasn't
a
racist
incident.
Now,
with
the
mixed
motive
protections,
we
have
coverage
analog
for
the
godless
of
any
other
motive.
You
can
cost
you
those
as
hate
crimes
now
and
it
makes
it
it
gives
it
clearly
to
to
judges
and
to
prosecutors
in
those
cases.
B
So
that's
a
huge
one,
because
you
can
imagine
those
in
those
kinds
of
incidents
happen
a
lot
where
they
escalate
from
something
else
into
a
hate
crime.
The
second
component
is
religious
expression,
which
we
also
gave
a
definition
of
that
names:
specific
forms
of
religious
expression,
clack
to
spy
minority
religions.
Now
this
is
something
new
that
is
not
contained
in
a
lot
of
hate
crime
laws
as
well,
and
we
named
things
like
head
cuff
links
of
all
kinds,
so
that
would
apply
to
a
yarmulke,
Ruben's
and
head
scarves,
worn
by
Muslims.
B
B
Of
things,
I
think
we
can
do
better
trainings
with
law
enforcement
with
these
laws
and
then
also
get
cleanings
out
into
the
community
on
a
lie
ship
and
how
to
not
be
bystanders
but
I.
Think
Michael
is
in
a
better
position
to
talk
about
some
of
the
things
he's
doing
with
law
enforcement
cleaning.
Well,.
C
And
they
think,
quite
frankly,
that
as
community
leaders
and
elected
officials,
we
have
the
opportunity,
if
not
the
obligation,
to
set
the
culture
and
climate
for
the
community
and
help
people
understand
how
we're
going
to
approach
diversity
and
how
much
that's
an
important
part
of
who
we
are
in
this
county
in
this
country.
So.
C
Since
2016
nationwide
there's
been
an
increase
in
hate
crimes,
olders
not
immune
from
those
challenges
either
and
we've
certainly
seen
increasing
hate
speech
and
hate
crimes
committed
with
in
Boulder
County.
So
when
I
became
District
Attorney
last
year
we
launched
the
bias
and
hate
crimes
initiative
and
look
closely
with
Nikhil
on
that
as
well,
and
what
we
did
in
conjunction
with
law
enforcement
and
other
groups
such
as
out
Boulder
and
the
LGBTQ
community.
They
set
up
a
biased
hate
crimes.